China's installed capacity of renewable power reaches 1.1 billion kilowatts

(ECNS) -- China’s installed capacity of renewable energy power generation reached 1.1 billion kilowatts as of the end of May, a year-on-year increase of 15.1 percent, data from the National Energy Administration shows.

Of the total, the installed capacity of conventional hydropower generation reached 360 million kilowatts, while that of pumped storage and new energy such as wind, photovoltaic, and biomass power generation stood at 40 million and 700 million kilowatts, respectively.

Data indicates that from January to May, China's newly installed renewable energy power generation capacity was 43.49 million kilowatts, accounting for 82.1 percent of the country's newly installed power generation capacity.

China's renewable energy power generation reached 1.06 trillion kWh in the same period, a year-on-year increase of 16.8 percent, accounting for about 31.5 percent of the electricity consumption of the whole society.